Well, they did it. They really did it. A brisk 19 years after the original game's release, Bethesda went back and slathered a thick layer of Unreal Engine 5 over The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's beating Gamebryo heart. It's out now, it's $50 (£50), and you even get the horse armour thrown in (except, um, the special deluxe edition horse armour). Don't say Todd Howard never did anything for you.
But oh, what's this? Cyrodiil certainly has expanded since I slotted it into my Xbox 360 disc drive back in 2006. Where the original game asks only a svelte 4.6 GB of drive space per its system reqs on Steam, the remaster wants, uh, more. Quite a bit more: it wants 125 GB. Fair's fair, though: that's only an economical 115 GB download thanks to Steam's compression.
